The Stove Creek Butcher

A cunning psychopath has found a serial killer's paradise in an isolated patch of Oregon, a religious commune, a cult. His youthful victims are never even missed until a lawyer comes looking for one of them. And Rob Swift comes home. Once this hamlet's brightest star, Swift is a cop now, disillusioned anxious, and insecure, on the brink of losing his job. A dismembered corpse is discovered. Not a trace of evidence. No apparent motive. Small town politics and vested interests conspire to keep murder under wraps, to shield the cult from outside exposure. But the killings continue and Swift is named a suspect. Has he been set up? Again? Deceptively compelling suspense; with atmosphere and characters that captivate. A topnotch mystery -E.Holtz The premise is frightfully possible. Thousands of cults exist, each a society unto itself. "They're so small you don't notice them until they erupt like a cancer." LaGard Smith, Pepperdine University